Police Term Papers Samples For Students

Management and Supervision in Law Enforcement

All Police departments are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that law and order is maintained (Miller & Frank, 1999). The Chief of Police for the South Podunk Municipal Police Department is no exception. The major task among other issues is to take a number of progressive steps about addressing the security needs of the residents within Podunk Municipality. While the chief and the department are empowered with the authority to ensure maximum security and order within their limits, they are also expected to maintain and uphold high ethical and professional standards free of corruption and other vices of workmanship.

Mission statement

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Introduction

Hostage negotiation is a crisis negotiation technique that involves communication with people who are threatening to inflict harm on defenceless civilians. The negotiations are usually between the hostage taker and the authority. A police psychologist can play the role of primary negotiator or advisor in a hostage crisis. A hostage negotiator is a specially trained law enforcement officer whose job is to diffuse situations that may have otherwise turned out hazardous. The police psychologist never works alone but is always part of the rescue team which may be the FBI, or the Police. An ideal negotiation is one whereby all hostages are ...

(Course/Major)

Swanson (1) avers that the uses of drones have both positive and negative uses for the use of drones in both commercial as well as law enforcement applications. However, Swanson is stating that with the absence of any actions by authorities, on the state and the Federal levels, to enact any policies or legislation to regulate any of the flights conducted by these “unmanned aerial vehicles” in America’s skies as these operators see fit. Federal authorities allowed more than 30,000 drone flights; police departments, for their part, have used drones to a low altitude of 400 feet, ...

Human Resources

Human Resources

Introduction

The police field is an important element in the society. The police have distinct duties including maintaining order in the society and promoting security for the people. As such, the police field is an area of close interaction with various types of people. Many regions and governments in the world have well-established police departments to deal with the issues of security in those given regions. Therefore, in order for these police departments to be successful, they realize that there is a need for the establishment of human resource departments within those police departments. Human resources are essential aspects ...

United States and China

I. Legal System
The United States criminal legal system is based on the British Common Law system. Common law refers to those laws that are created and imposed by judges in the absence of specific a specific code or applicable statute defining the law (LaFave, 2000). Accordingly, during the early years of the nation when a judge was faced with a criminal activity that was not covered by a statute, he would use precedent, or refer to the decisions of similar cases, for guidance. Absent statute and precedent, the judge would simple use his best legal, professional and personal judgment to make ...

Synopsis

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, is a nonfiction book written by John Grisham in 2006 telling the false arrest story of a former minor league baseball player, Ronald ‘Ron’ Keith Williamson from Ada, Oklahoma . He was falsely convicted in 1988 for murdering and raping Debra ‘Debby’ Sue Carter in Ada and sentenced to death. After serving for 11 years in prison as a convict on death row, he was found not guilty after new technology DNA tests were done and other materials introduced by Innocence Project in 1999.Before Debra’s death Ron Williamson had returned in his hometown ...

Introduction

Stalking is an objectionable and unwanted behavior of an individual towards others. Stalking exists since the beginning of human history but recently it has been categorized as a crime in various countries. A number of people may not consider stalking as a crime or serious problem but reality is different and it causes various problems and harassments for others. Stalking does not create problems for individuals only but it presents various challenges for law enforcement agencies and legal system. The problem has become more complicated as stalking has widened its area from physical stalking to cyber stalking. This paper intends to ...

Introduction

In the discipline of forensics, the field of ballistics is the “study of motion, dynamics, angular movement, and projectile units (bullets, missiles, and bombs). In the context of a criminal investigation, there are a host of possible applications to aid in the facilitation of a criminal conduct. Bullets that are discharged at a crime scene will be inspected in an attempt to discover pieces of evidence and information. Among the pieces of information that police hope to recover from the bullet are the possible type of gun used in the crime, whether the gun was used in a previous crime, and other information that ...

Question one: Procedural stages of a civil case

In the United States of America, the Constitution does not donate civil suits to the Federal Government. Under the doctrine of residual powers, it is the states that have the authority and mandate over civil cases. It is on that premise that civil procedure in the United States may be different from state to state. However, there has been a general approach applied by all the fifty states. In this section, the paper shall discuss the procedural stages in a civil suit.
A civil suit begins formally with the institution of the suit. Often, the suit can only be instituted ...

The controversial New York State Police Department; Stop and Frisk Policy is arguably facing its exit especially after the latest ruling in the case of Floyd et al v City of New York et al. However, before it is legally repudiated probably by the incoming Democrat Mayor, who enjoys colossal support amid the mayoral polls, this paper shall discuss the constitutionality or otherwise of the policy. From the onset, it is imperative to appreciate the paper’s contention that the New York stop, question and frisk policy is unconstitutional and that in that respect the policy is null, void ...

The movie Thelma and Louise revolves around two women and tackles feminist issues. The set-up rotates within a couple of themes and characterizations. It opens up with two middle-aged ladies who are best friends; Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend, Louise (Susan Sarandon), start the movie with a plan to go away for the weekend and have fun. Louise works as a waitress, while Thelma, who is a housewife married to an abusive husband, is a carpet-seller. Both Thelma and Louise have problems in their marriages, and this happens to be the reason why they both want to take a break.
The major ...

Overview

The movie Thelma and Louise is a feminist movie that revolves around two women. The set up rotates within a couple of themes and characterization. It opens up with best friends, two ladies who are middle-aged; Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend Louise (Susan Sarandon) start the movie with a plan to go for fun over the weekend. Louise works as a waitress while Thelma, who is a housewife married to abusive husband, sells carpets. Both Thelma and Louise have a problem in their marriages and this happens to be the reason as to why they want to take a break.
The major effect ...

This submission will be seeking to discuss custodial interrogation within the context of Miranda Rights. It will be seeking to present this discussion through the use of a case study. The facts from the case study will then be analyzed so as to bring out the core concerns that the submission seeks to highlight. The case study involves the arrest of Sally Martin who was indicted for possession of heroin and weapons under disability. During the period from the arrest, Martin made certain statements, some by herself without any prompting and others as a resulted of being prompted by the officers. ...

Abstract

Crimes have been evolving over time to become more sophisticated. While law enforcement agencies have equally enhanced their capabilities so as to deal effectively with criminals, other developments have also taken place so as to aid in the all-important task of bring perpetrators of various criminal acts to book. One such development has been through the enactment of various legislation, which seeks to among other things, enhance the efficiency of the law enforcement agencies and officers. Indeed, as the nature of crime has changed over time, the concerned authorities have enacted better laws or revised existing laws so as ...

Introduction

Police force is a very important department in America. The police officers play a very significant role in the society. It is no secret that the American police forces are largely dominated by men. There are fewer female officers as compared to their male counterparts. Obviously, the few female officers are faced with lots of challenges. This makes it difficult for them to cope up with the working conditions in which they are expected to discharge their duties. This paper gives a critical evaluation of female police officers. It does this by focusing on the historical trends, their numbers, challenges and the ...

The United States Constitution did not originally have a Bill of Rights, but during the time when the Constitution was being written, the Founding Fathers were very concerned about the potential for individual rights' abuse by the government. Some of the Founding Fathers were against the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution, but eventually, the concern about the government using its power to abuse the rights of citizens won out over the fear of not giving the government enough power (Cuddihy). The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution were added and are now called the Bill ...

Police procedures for responding to calls involving special situations

Police officers as the principal public safety persons respond to a host of emergency situations, some ordinary others quite unusual (Ortmeier, 2006). In each of these situations, the responding officer is expected to either solve or at least contain the situation. Inevitably, an officer will be called or while on patrol respond to a situation they have never experienced (Ortmeier, 2001). In other instances the situation may be usual but requiring special attention owing to the circumstances. These situations are referred to as special situations and there are corresponding procedures for each situation.

Responding to natural disasters

Natural disasters bring a lot of catastrophe whenever they ...

Business and Society

Citation: New York Times, February 4, 2012, Website.
Facts: The cause of the conflict between the Occupy Oakland protesters and the police is due to police misconduct, the use of excessive force and concealment of name badges. This group of protesters has originated in Oakland California. The main cause of the protest had originated from the acts of the Oakland police which are in violation of their sworn duties and policies enforced by the police agencies (Walter & Glantz,“Occupy Protesters Stretch the Police, Leaving Parts of Oakland Underserved”). The first occupation was brought about by the death of ...

The Due Process is a system of legal proceedings that ensure the protection and enforcement of the rights of the citizens. It was established by the US constitution under the fifth and the 14th Amendments. The section 5 is applicable to the federal courts while the 14th Amendment is for the states. The two amendments and it clarify, that no government actions can deprive the accused person his/her right to life, liberty or property without the due process. They demand that government actions follow the same rules for all individuals accused of any crimes in US. This ensures fair trials ...

In this case, John Marvin was accused of killing two police officers—Mathew Tokuoka and Anthony Wallace—at Hoonah, on 28 August 2010. Dr. Lois Michaud, a forensic psychologist, believed that Marvin was competent to go for the trial as he was simply non-committal whenever he was asked to give his version of the case. The authority who investigated the case was a firearms identification expert. He was able to examine a bullet as well as a cartridge, which were both fired (Smith and Ray 780). According to the expert, the two were fired from a rifle in the home of the defendant. Therefore, ...

United States v. Crews: Case 445 U.S. 463

Description of the findings

The case was presented in court on October 31, 1979, and the verdict presented on March 25, 1980 (U.S Supreme court, 1980). It is based on the fourth amendment and the implications presented by arresting an individual without probable cause. It is about a woman who on January 3, 1974, got robbed at gunpoint by a male who forced his way into a stall she occupied in the restroom. He went ahead and made sexual advancement to her and threatened to kill her if she asked for help in less than twenty minutes after he left the restroom. ...

Introduction

The right to privacy is perhaps one of the most fundamental cornerstones of America’s democracy. The constitution under the Fourth Amendment ensures that all Americans have a right to privacy and this privacy can only be violated through a search warrant as defined by the constitution. The Supreme Court has since determined the nature and circumstances under which a warrant can be issued. However, one the most pertinent issue arises from searching a vehicle of suspect without a warrant. Several states have argued that if a suspect poses danger and there is evidence of probable cause, police officers may search the vehicle without having ...

Imprisonment or incarceration plays a major role in keeping away dangerous persons and perpetrators of heinous crimes from our communities. In fact this has been the practice among humans since the beginning of time. However, in the past, people preferred a more permanent solution to wrecked characters. These solutions involved cutting off limbs, crucifixion and stoning to death. Prisons and incarcerations were later introduced as less punitive measures so as to give such persons a second chance in the society. Different nations have developed a judicial system that handles matters of police operations, the judicial process and the incarceration of such persons. Countries, ...

Throughout the history of the United States policing, there has been strenuous or tensions between the police and other law enforcement agencies and the minorities and people in low social economic classes. However in the recent past there have been efforts to address the situation through community policing.
Policing in the United States has been analysed by different experts and researchers in terms of law enforcement efforts. There have been concerns that there is racial and ethnic discrimination in terms of court proceedings, corrections and incarceration. In studies carried out in 2005, 1.525M people were in prison in ...

Introduction

In the past, policing in the criminal justice system was highly different from the trend that has been there in the recent years. The police departments were concerned with upgrading the personnel through training, streamlining the organization and using highly modern equipment. However the police started to face higher pressures in the 1960’s due to the increased crime rates and civil rights demonstrations. Scholars began to call for a reassessment of the policing model in the country. It was perceived there is an imbalance in policing as the staff was overly concerned with the internal operations of the departments ...

Times Square has been one of the most famous sites of the world; like the Eifel Tower in Paris or the Parthenon in Athens. For years a visitor to New York City has headed for Times Square whether they are from the USA or a foreign country, just to see what is there and take in the atmosphere.
Historically, Times Square has spent thousands of years as a non-owned piece of land along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Since then the area has changed personality many times after the Dutch took ownership after claiming a 60 guilder purchase from the natives.
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Racial Profiling

Racial profiling is the process by which the authorities will create a profile of a likely suspect based on his or hers ethnic background and race. This idea is based on the belief, stereotype and, in some cases, statistics that certain minority groups are more likely to participate in unlawful behaviour (Laney, 2006, p1). The controversy which surrounds this is based in the discussion of whether anyone should be legally pursued on the basis of their ethnicity and race. The narrower end of the wedge here is a definition which sees police officers stopping people for questioning based on their race but ...

The selection and training of a police officer is a long and arduous process. As law enforcement officers, it is imperative that only the best and brightest of the available candidates (those who can do the job right) are allowed the authority and responsibility that being a police officer entails. The skills that such a qualified candidate would learn through their subsequent training and career development would see them through to a long life in law enforcement and beyond. In this paper, we will elaborate more on the training process, selection process, and career development programs involved in becoming a police officer.

The qualifications for ...

Introduction

The police subculture is an importance and necessary concept that provides an insight into the police attitudes and behaviors. The police play a crucial role in providing law and enforcement and are therefore required to maintain high ethical standards within their working environment. Therefore, the police culture ensures that police has ethical attitudes and behaviors so that they can effectively protect the rights of the society. The police subculture perceives the public as untrustworthy, hostile, potentially, violent, and this subsequently requires mutual support, secrecy, and unity to help the police cope with such environment. As a result, the police subculture was ...

(Institute/University)

Abstract

Recent news of police engaging lethal force to contain seemingly non-dangerous situations has dominated headlines in the news. News such as the shootings of Kajieme Powell, Michael Brown and countless others and the seeming impunity that the system grants the accused proffer that the system will use any avenue to impose the upper classes’ will on the lower class in the guise of crime control. However, rather than project a racist slant, the research also looks on the possibility that the police officers, in the line of duty, must be given enough latitude in determining the situations that ...

Any officer of the law is expected to be above suspicion and present themselves as a stalwart example to the community they protect. Corruption in law enforcement is supposed to remain rooted in fictional stories and television and films that are made to entertain the masses. It is unfortunate then that the truth is that the depiction of corruption in law enforcement within the fictional boundaries has a very solid, realistic base from which to work. Despite their trusted and respected roles in their communities, police officers are not immune to temptation. Accepting gratuities are among the worst violations ...

History of Community Policing

The concept of community policing was formed in the 1960s during the struggle for the civil rights movement (Brunschot, 2003). Before this time, law enforcement executed the methods of power and violence in order to control the citizens. The core root of the community policing was a failure of the formal police authorities to fulfill their duties productively, which resulted in various protests and rebellion against the authorities. It is believed that the crucial trigger initiated the development of this movement is a crisis in the interactions between the law enforcement and the public.
During the 1960s, police managed ...

Executive summary

This product is centered on virtual reality technology. As a matter of fact, this product is designed for law enforcement officers. By simulating the dangerous conditions and circumstances that police officers have to work under on a periodical basis, the software will help law enforcement officers, make better decisions in a short period. Some of the decisions that it will help a law enforcement officer make are when to discharge a weapon when to engage a suspect and how to ascertain whether a situation has a potential of being volatile. What is more is that this software not only ...

In every law enforcement in any country, police officers have the right to use force in the course of their work. However, the use of force is not limitless to them. The use of force should be exceptional, that is, acceptable in some cases. The use of force by law enforcement officers is strictly regulated by the law. The laws may differ from one country to another, and one should always be familiar with them. The international community has worked towards establishing a code of conduct that should be followed by all law enforcement officers in all countries. The ...

Now it is time to give careful consideration to the nature of corruption that is the case in the USA. Pepys (2) notes that corruption within the system of justice may be defined as the use of management reserves or public authority to one’s own advantage or for personal gains resulting in an inappropriate legal protection of citizens and delivery of judicial services. In a broad context, the system of justice embraces judges, police, prosecutors, public defenders, court personnel, private bar, and a variety of court decision enforcement agencies, such as, for example, penal institutions. Whatever the variety of justice ...

Introduction

Crime is a serious issue in the state of Texas in general and in the city of Houston in particular. Both the state and the city have one of the slowest crime reduction progressions nationwide, although some positive results have been achieved during the last decade (Maxwell, 2015). However, still Houston is ranked 46th most dangerous city in the United States of America (Texas Department of Public Safety, 2015). Despite the fact that in comparison with 2010 results the number of murders fell by 38% from January to July 2012, the city is still replete with dangers. The total ...

Discretion is the basic right to act in relation to one’s own judgment. This is an essential aspect of criminal justice. Within the criminal justice system, those who have any form of authority, including police officers, court officials, and probation officers, are given a level of discretion in order to utilize their ability to process those who have broken the law. Beginning with the police, who are given the discretion to make arrests, an individual is then given to the discretion of the court system, and the scrutiny of judge and public attorney. After this, a person might ...

Introduction

Reasons for Violent Crimes/Homicides
Drug Trade
Police Corruption
Prescriptions
Economy
Incentives
Accountability
Conclusion
Having been hired as a criminal justice expert by the Puerto Rico homicide investigation authority, it is important to examine the facts and the justification behind the increased homicide rates in the country. 779 people were killed in the United States commonwealth in 2003. This statistic is far above the national average of the states themselves. These numbers are essentially due to the increased amount of drug trafficking that the country has seen. The increase in cartels has essentially ...

The Co-Cultural Communication Theory is defined as a theory that encompasses the different co-cultural groups that have been associated with negative cultural connotations, (Holton, S., 1998). The theory itself was principally created by a scholar by the name of Orbe who sought to uncover the similarities between members of co-cultures who were viewed as inferior to other members of a dominant society, (Holton, S., 1998). The Co-Cultural Communication Theory can absolutely be applied to how Blacks as a minority have been treated within American society.
Unfortunately, there has been a great divide between Blacks and whites along with other ...

Introduction

Stalking refers to repeated unwanted attention or obsession targeting a particular individual that would make any reasonable person to feel apprehension or fear (Nadkarni & Grubin, 2000). For a behavior to qualify as stalking, it has to be intrusive and unwanted, and there must be a strong preoccupation with the victim. Stalking activities fall into three categories: following, communicating, and aggression (Nadkarni & Grubin, 2000). Following involves trailing victims to their workplaces and homes, and engineering coincidences. Communicating involves the use of anonymous phone calls, letters, gifts or emails. Aggression involves harassment, threatening victims’ friends and families, vandalism or spreading rumors meant to embarrass the ...

Introduction

Nowadays Mexico is mostly known as one of the world’s largest consumer economics and moreover, as one of the biggest drug producers and sellers. Rapid growing number of criminal cartels in the country priory benefit from drug trading. Unfortunately, Mexico has a weak judicial system and police institutions. Hereby, the government cannot neither diminish the cartels’ activity, nor control them. Definitely, many actions both inside the country and within the international cooperation were made in order to change the situation. In order to understand the reason of social deviance and inactivity of native civilians in such circumstances a Theory of ...

Introduction

There exist about 33,000 violent gangs among street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs a population of members active in committing criminal acts. Most of them are sophisticated and properly organized. They employ violence to control their territories and make robust their money making activities that far include; robbery, fraud, drug and gun trafficking, prostitution rings, and extortion (Barker, 2007).
A report released by the National Gang Threat Assessment in 2011, shows that gangs are responsible for an average of 48% of criminal activities and up to a high of 90% in other jurisdiction. There are a number of motorcycles ...

The violence related to gang activities is considered to be one of the worse crimes committed, other than murder because it violates the peace of individuals in the neighborhood and increases panic or fear. Not to mention, the gang members who commit these crimes are usually repeat offenders. In order to understand the full depth of gang related charges, we must first understand what a gang is, the various offenses gang members usually commit, crime defense strategies and how law enforcement classify gang members; since this classification is critical in a gang member’s defense and whether they would ...

Policemen of the World

Introduction
Since it has gained its independence after the Civil War, the United States of America became the force to be reckoned with as the world’s dominant force in the international arena. Many nations look up to the United States in any given issue: may it be political, economic or social in nature. Considering these circumstances, the US is often regarded by many as the world’s “policemen” and for the US, such responsibility is done in full confidence and dedication each time an issue arises around the globe. Only recently, the US has deployed its forces ...

Corruption

The definition of corruption is the misuse of public power for private profits. We can see this occurrence in large firms or enterprises. We can also see this in most of the activities regulated by the government. To speak more about corruption, it is scanning off money for their own profits. We can see these conditions where organisation don’t work properly because of which normal people have to money for their problems to be solved. Corruption stages will differ among a country side for various sorts. For example, there can also be minoroutstanding corruption during a country with a comparatively clean ...

Introduction

This submission seeks to analyze the decision in Mapp v. Ohio and bring out the facts of that case, highlighting the similarities and differences in facts between the case and the fact pattern. It will then highlight the rules that the United States Supreme Court developed in deciding Mapp v. Ohio and apply the same to the fact pattern in a bid to arrive at a decision consistent with the legal principle of stare decisis.
In the Mapp’s case, police in Ohio got wind of a bombing suspect and an illegal gambling machine that were in Mapp’s house. When ...

There are a number of theories applied in sociology that help determine the social aspect of human beings in terms of their experiences. These theories include: conflict theory, feminist theory, sociological theory just to mention but a few. These theories define the interaction of social groups and helps evaluate their experiences in terms of race, gender, ethnicity and social class. These issues can be observed through various sociological perspectives such as functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactions (Leger, 2003). Therefore, the focus of the paper is assessing two ethnic communities in the United States in terms of race, gender and social ...

Computer crimes are unavoidable in our organizations because all service and product deliveries have been digitized. It means that criminals are exploiting each and every weakness in the IT systems used in delivering their services and products. Therefore, computer professional and associations should ensure that there are frameworks put in place to protect and face these challenges through laws. There are several laws in place that can be used to successfully prosecute and convict computer criminals. Unlike other types of crimes, computer crimes are very dynamic and complex in nature. Among the many challenges that computer forensic investigation department ...

Chapter Summaries

Chapter 9 Summary: Background to the Middle East
The Middle East has been associated with terrorism for a very long time. This chapter provides background information on the Middle East. Most of the people living in the Middle East are of Islamic faith, and some of the countries include those in North Africa, Southwest Asia, Arabian Peninsula, Afghanistan, and Iran. However, in the past there have other religions such as Judaism and Christianity.
Issues of terrorism are based on certain theological concepts of Islam, which have resulted to the development of a militant philosophy. Islam itself is divided into ...

“Genocide” is the term used to describe a mass destruction of, or within a particular group, based on racial, religious, or ethnic discrimination, with deliberate and systematic motives. The term “Genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin, in the year 1944. Lemkin was a lawyer and his book “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe” introduced us to this term for the first time. According to Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide signifies a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” However, according to the Convention on the Prevention and ...

The Boko Haram Islamic terror group in Nigeria has been associated with a myriad of hostilities in the recent past including mass bombings and major kidnappings. The recent incident by the group is the brutal bombing and killing of 85 civilians at a village in Northern Nigeria called Dalori. This massive killing, among other atrocities characterize this Islamic extremist group. This manuscript thus appraises this killing among other interrelated activities by the group from a historical perspective. The manuscript equally appraises the reasoning behind the group’s terror activities in Nigeria.
Boko Haram is a terror organization based in ...

In the profession of Clinical Psychology there can be several issues that may be present. Some of these issues can be in regards to patients, treatments, and termination. There is one issue that can be an escalating problem for not only the Psychologist but for patients as well. “The one issue that needs addressed would be appointments” . Appointments have big impact in the day and the life of a Clinical Psychologist.
Appointments are scheduled in advance with good faith that the patients will keep these appointments. The appointments keeps the Psychologists working, assisting people, and getting paid. The patients ...

Abstract

The mission of the United States police force on terrorism and threats from countries in the Middle East such as Afghanistan is to foster peaceful coexistence within states and other nations. Their involvement in the provision of humanitarian support to the civilians in Libya during the military crackdown in 2011for instance was contributed to by the foreign policies that arose after the Second World War (Beasley, 2013).

There are international incidences that have involved operation of the United States police force in the past five years include:

- Provision of humanitarian support to the Libyan civilians during a military crackdown in response to the uprising curfew in Gadhafi’s reign.
- The war and threats against nuclear terrorism in ...

Introduction

Homicide is defined as the act in, which a person kills another person. There have been times when people have compared homicide with murder. This is the reason that has caused many researchers in the society to try to investigate the difference between the two terms. Some of the findings that came out were that homicide is much more than just plain murder. The truth is that murder can be said to be another form of the homicide, which is stated to be in the criminal homicide characteristics. The other types of homicide can be stated to be capital murder, ...

Introduction

The collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 meant that the countries that were formerly under its rule and control were now free. However, many of these countries that were formerly under the rule of the Soviet Union encountered great difficulties in reclaiming their national and independent identities. One of the countries that faced great difficulty was Yugoslavia. First the integrity of this country was hugely questioned. The nation functioned as an unstable assemblage of people of various ethnic groups. These include Croats, Serbs, and Bosnian Muslims. The country eventually split into various competing factions. Serbia and ...

Introduction

Over the past decade, drug crimes and drug abuse have garnered a lot of attention. It is estimated that every year about $110 billion is cost to the country through drug related accidental injuries and deaths, health care, criminal behaviors, dependency treatment and so on. Both the state and federal laws prohibit the manufacturing, possession, and the sale of certain controlled substances such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, and ecstasy. Drug's relation to crimes is through the effects drugs make on the user's behavior by influencing him to commit violence and other illegal action connected to drug trafficking. In 2004, ...

Film Studies

Asian Horror Films
The birth of Asian horror movies started began with the popularity of Japanese horror films. Initially these films were made by independent filmmakers and had low budget. But the gaining popularity of Japanese horror films spurred the culture of horror films to be made in other Asian nations like South Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong.
The visceral and moral extremes displayed in recent Asian cinemas may leave the viewers appalled. The movie Oldboy displays the main protagonist cutting off his tongue to prevent his daughter to know about their incestuous relationship as well as ...

The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois
Concepts like public sociology, the sociological imagination, policy sociology and methodological triangulation are terms frequently used in modern sociology. Sociology student are encouraged by their academic advisors to supplement their class work with practical field experience. For instance, research to evaluate the effectiveness of social programs can be extremely useful. The question of whether sociological research can have a positive effect on society is particularly relevant in the modern day. Researchers have to ask themselves whether the work they are doing have implications for public policy. Furthermore, students are expected to bring different ...

The focus on this paper mainly highlights on the field of ethics and moral values in the society we live in. The paper will draw from different incidences in the history of humanity that led to calamities that would have otherwise been avoided through discipline and active carefulness by individuals involved in the incidences. The administration of any organization should always be held responsible for any shortcomings or disasters that occur at the work place due to negligence or assumption. It is their sole responsibility to cover their working staff y properly insuring and assuring their lives.

The first ...

The issue of the National Security Authority’s spying program which gave the NSA the power to get personal details of any American citizen in the name of preventing terrorist attacks is a major issue of contention in the United States today. The US government states that this is justified because national surveillance is in the best interest of the United States and its fight against terrorism. The purpose of this essay is to argue on the basis of utilitarianism and assess the appropriateness of the national surveillance of the United States’ National Security Authority.
The theories of ethics ...